Inktober 2019, Day 10: Pattern

I drew this from a snapshot of my husband traveling in a dangling cable car. The crosshatching on his skin turned out more humdrum than I'd have preferred, though still perfectly satisfactory, but I did achieve some fun pattern with his beard, hair and shirt collar.

Inktober 2019, Day 10, prompt word "Pattern." Dip pen and ink, 8 x 11 in. by Ciana Pullen. [Image descripton: black and white realistic pen drawing of a man peering upward, shown from his shoulders up. The line of his collarbone to the crown of his head cross the page from bottom left top right, and his shoulders create an X shape. The background is blank.]

Inktober 2019 Day 3: Bait

Inktober 2019, Day 3: prompt word "Bait." Dip pen and ink, 8 x 11 in. by Ciana Pullen. [Image description: black and white ink drawing with ink wash of a man standing in the dark holding a lit lamp at stomach level. He's shown front-on from thighs up, and the lamp lights his torso but the rest of him and the space around him is dark.]

Inktober 2018, Day 19 "Scorched"

Day 19 of Inktober, prompt word "Scorched." I previously wrote about Inktober here. This is an edited version, but I'm posting these daily on my Instagram, @St.Rhinoceros:

Day 19 of Inktober 2018, prompt word "Scorched." I drew this to look like a solarized photograph (I drew from a normal cell phone photo which is grainy enough to leave something to the imagination). To make a solarized print in a photo lab, you expose the film onto paper, then put the paper in developer. Just as the image starts to develop you take it out and scorch the photosensitive silver salts with bright light for a few seconds, then continue developing the print as usual. You end up with a psychadelic quicksilver negative effect. Dip pen and ink. by Ciana Pullen / St. Rhinocéros. [Image description: black and white shaded portrait of a man leaning and looking intently out of frame. Where the darkest areas of his face would be, they are instead flipped and a bit marbleized.]

Inktober Day 5 "Chicken"

Day 5 of Inktober, prompt word "Chicken." I previously wrote about Inktober here. This is an edited version, but I'm posting these daily on my Instagram, @St.Rhinoceros:

Day 5 of Inktober 2018, prompt word "Chicken," by Ciana Pullen / St. Rhinocéros. Ink with dip pen. [Image description: black and white realistic style drawing with shading and crosshatching. The top half is a man's face, turned 3/4 toward shadow and looking back over his shoulder in horror with bulging eyes. The bottom, where a mustache would be, is instead 8 or so human legs attached under his nose, running to the right and away from the viewer, kicking up a cloud of dust.]

Sketch of my husband at a cafe

Sketch of my husband at a cafe, by Ciana Pullen / St. Rhinocéros

Testing New Pen Nibs on a Burberry Ad

Sketch of a Burberry ad, by Ciana Pullen / St. Rhinocéros

Yelling, by Ciana Pullen

Yelling, by Ciana Pullen, 2000. India ink, drawn from a photograph of an orchestra conductor and a photo of Katharine Hepburn.

Sketch of a Seated Man, by Ciana Pullen

Sketch of a Seated Man, by Ciana Pullen, 2009. Drawn from life, charcoal.

Sketch of a Driver, by Ciana Pullen

Sketch of a Driver, by Ciana Pullen, 2013.

Figure Drawing of a Seated Man, by Ciana Pullen

Figure Drawing of a Seated Man, by Ciana Pullen 2009

Sketch of a Man Crocheting Near Centre Pompidou, Paris, by Ciana Pullen

Sketch of a Man in Paris, by Ciana Pullen, 2014.

I sketched this man as he was crocheting quietly on bench near the Centre Pompidou.